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I have found that running an AV program such as clamAV will detect and quarantine quite a lot of the emails with such attachments. The AV log should then tell you a bit about what the malware is. Phil On 11/03/14 12:10, Pierre Cazenave wrote: > On 11/03/14 10:33, Neil Winchurst wrote: >> My wife and I both use Linux. We do occasionally get scam emails, not a >> lot thankfully. I have noticed some new ones recently. These refer to a >> court case which we are supposed to attend. My wife apparently has two >> ongoing cases in the US, while I have one in London. >> >> All rubbish of course. To find out the details we are supposed to open >> up an attachment, yeah right!! I did just wonder though, if we were >> stupid enough to open up that attachment would any nasty program fail to >> run because we don't use Windows? I am not going to try that out just >> to see, but can anyone tell me? >> >> Thanks >> >> Neil >> > > Always good for a chuckle: > > http://archive09.linux.com/feature/42031 > > Pierre > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq